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Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, seething over ‘smear attack,’ comes out swinging

Who said the soap opera was dead?

Aaron Rodgers on Monday lent his voice to the turmoil that has enveloped the Packers during one of the great offseason pie fights in recent memory.

A short primer:

The Packers, on the verge of back-to-back losing seasons for the first time in 27 years, fired head coach Mike McCarthy with four games still to play in the 2018 season.

In early February, Forbes magazine published a story in which ex-Packers Jermichael Finley, Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila and Greg Jennings criticized Rodgers for undermining McCarthy’s authority by, among other things, countermanding the coach’s play calls.